{"id":190550,"date":"2009-11-14T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/14\/when-conservatives-have-lost-cokie-roberts\/"},"modified":"2009-11-14T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T02:18:00","slug":"when-conservatives-have-lost-cokie-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/14\/when-conservatives-have-lost-cokie-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"When Conservatives Have Lost Cokie Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have jumped the shark, and when Cokie Roberts, whose shtick over the last 30 years has been to criticize Democrats for being&#8230;.Democrats&#8230;says that Jon Voight&#8217;s ramblings suggesting that Obama has been &#8220;programmed&#8221; are, &#8220;cringe-worthy,&#8221; it means something.<\/p>\n<p>Lou Dobbs broke the conservative barrier on TV, by <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/did-dobbs-walk-away-or-was-he-pushed.html\">getting thrown off the air for being too wingnutty<\/a>, a first time I think that this has happened to a major media figure.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the Republicans are crossing lines that are beginning to freak out the &#8220;very serious people&#8221; inside the beltway.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/io7uGOA4Wgg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/io7uGOA4Wgg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/io7uGOA4Wgg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/io7uGOA4Wgg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/io7uGOA4Wgg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_11\/020870.php\">The Washington Monthly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have jumped the shark, and when Cokie Roberts, whose shtick over the last 30 years has been to criticize Democrats for being&#8230;.Democrats&#8230;says that Jon Voight&#8217;s ramblings suggesting that Obama has been &#8220;programmed&#8221; are, &#8220;cringe-worthy,&#8221; it means something. Lou Dobbs broke the conservative barrier on TV, by getting thrown off the air for being too &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,978,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}